Young Adults Recruiting Guide Who Will Carry Your Club's Banner in 2050?

1. Young Adults Recruiting Guide Who Will Carry Your Club's Banner in 2050?

2. Why Recruit Young Adults • Ensure your club will exist in 40 years • Increase hands to do more service • Gain fresh ideas • Bring in new energy and diverse skills • Promote membership that reflects the community

3. Tools for Recruiting Young Adults • LCI has developed tools to help • Young Adult Recruiting Guide • Be Part of Something that Matters Brochure • Become Involved Become a Lion Video

4. Recruiting Young Adults

5. Membership Programs • Family Membership Program • Dues discounts available • Lions Family Cub Program • Enables Lions to bring their children to meetings • Increases likelihood both parents will join

6. Membership Programs • Student Member Program • Dues discounts available • Leo to Lion Program • Former Leo’s • Other Young Adults • Dues discounts available

7. Finding Young Adults to Recruit • Recruit family of current members • Visit local colleges and universities • Invite graduating Leos • Post flyers or set up a booth in the lunchroom of a local business • Partner with a youth group to implement a joint service project

8. Tips for Recruiting • Recruit with your youngest members • Start a committee • Dress for the situation

9. “Talking” Dues • Explain where the money goes • Verbally partition dues into monthly payments. • $10 a month sounds more manageable than $120 a year • Don’t forget to find out if they qualify for any dues discounts from LCI.

10. Follow-up • Consider modern methods: • Follow up via e-mail • Keep it short • Link to your club Web site or Facebook page • Include information about your next meeting • Send them a text • Text the date, time and location of your next meeting as a reminder

11. Positioning your Club

12. Club Meetings • Make changes to accommodate young adults • Be flexible about meeting attendance • Let go of some traditions • Do not serve a meal • Stick to an agenda

13. Get Online • Have an attractive, up-to-date club Web site • Use the e-Clubhouse • Don’t use animated images and clip art • Include pictures and descriptions of service projects • Create a club Facebook Fan Page

14. e-Clubhouse • Create a free, useful and professional looking Web Site for Your Club • Designed with fill-in-the blank fields for even the least Internet savvy, the e-Clubhouse allows you to: • Build and maintain a Web site for your club using a simple set of tools • Keep your members and your community up-to-date on the projects the club is working on • Promote your club’s activities and recruit new members

15. www.e-clubhouse.org

16. Service • To a young adult, the most important benefit of being a Lion is service • Highlight hands-on projects • Provide several project to choose from • Make a global impact • Go green

17. Leadership • Involve young adults in club leadership • Ask them to be part of a group or committee • Give them a voice • Utilize their skills

18. Starting a New Club

19. Starting a New Club • Campus Lions club • Leo Lions club • Club branch • Special interest club • Cyber club

20. Extension Workshops • Designed to help Lions start new clubs • Learn key strategies for identifying new club locations

21. Questions?